INTRODUCTION TO BEPOKT AND JOURNAL. 27 



For the particulars of each .lay's travel across the Great Hasiu, as well as a minute 

 description of the country traversed, I refer to my journal. Hut as a previous gen**] 



The first ti.ii.--- xxliich will strike one, on looking at the map, will be the yrcat 

 number of mountain von,,* -which the mutes cross in the Great Kasin ; and this will 

 appear to him the more remarkable, as the idea has been generally entertained, since 

 the explorations of Fremont in 184;) and 1844 (thongk, as before remarked, he cor- 

 rected the error in his succeeding expedition), that this Great Basin was aflat country, 

 scattered over with a system of small lairs and rivers, and destitute of mountains. The 

 fact, on the contrary, is that it is the most mountainous region, considering Its extent, 

 we have probably within the limits of our domain: and so far from bring scattered 

 over with a system of small lakes and rivers, which seem to implv a considerable 

 number of this kind of water area, it has but a limited number of lakes, and they 

 almost entirely confined to the bases of the great Sierra which bound the Ha sin. 



These lakes are, proceeding from north to south and along the circumference of 

 the Great Basin, Great Salt Lake, Take Utah, Sevier Lake, and Small Salt Lake, on 

 the eastern side of the Basin; and on the western, proceeding from south to north, 

 Soda Lake, Owen's Lake, Walkers Lake, the two Carson hakes, Humboldt Lake, 

 Pyramid Lake, the Mud Lakes, and Lake Abert. Beside these/there are Franklin 

 Lake andGoshoot Lake, which are to be seen to the east of the Last Humboldt range. 



These constitute all the lakes that have been discovered in the Great Basin, and 

 they are all without outlet. Great Salt Lake is 70 miles long and from 20 to 30 broad. 

 Pyramid Lake and Walker's Lake, the next largest, are both 30 miles long by 10 wide 

 All the others are smaller. Pyramid Lake, Walker's Lake, and Utah Lake, which are 



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